Re: [PATCH] sim: d10v: link in missing testsuite

Doug Evans
2015-04-05T06:12:21Z

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 12:11 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 02 Apr 2015 23:16, Doug Evans wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> > obnoxiously, this crappy framework supports parallel test running while dejagnu
>> > does not. i'm not sure if there's any way to make the dejagnu do parallel ...
>> > it's really really painful for some targets like frv & bfin which have hundreds
>> > of tests.
>>
>> Maybe mimic what gdb does for parallel testing?
>
> my vague recollection is that gdb has sharded the exp files into arbitrary sets
> so as to get some level of parallelism -- it's still at the exp level, and the
> individual tests in a single exp are run in serial. is that accurate ?
> -mike

Yes.

If there is otherwise only one .exp, one thing one could do is
generate the .exp's for each shard.